Psalms

Psalm 51 is one of the most well-known poems in the entire Bible. Its superscription tells you exactly when it was written: after the prophet Nathan confronts David about his adultery with Bathsheba and his engineering of Uriah’s death on the front lines (a literal conspiracy if ever there was one). In other words, it’s a man crushed by weight of his guilt, stained by moral distortion that can’t be erased, trying to figure out how to commune with the divine again. ...